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Historical Event on 5/17/1994
Nar Bahadur Bhandari voted out in Sikkim; Sikkim Sangram Parishad leader Sanchaman Limboo takes over as CM.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/17/1994 | 24 merchants gathered in London's Founder Hall under the auspices of Lord Mayor to start a new company with a share captial in India. |
| 6/9/1992 | LDF wrests Narakal while the UDF retains the Tanur assembly seat in Kerala. |
| 1/22/1989 | DMK swept to power in Tamil Nadu Assembly election. |
| 12/16/1999 | Michael Johnson's 400m world record (43.18s) set up in the Seville World championship was ratified by IAAF. Other records also ratified were Kenyan Noah Ngeny's 1000m mark (2 11.96, Reiti, Italy) and Moroccan Hicham el Guerrouj's 2000m (4 44.79, Berlin). |
| 10/14/1947 | Narsingh Chintaman Kelkar, great litterateur, politician and editor, died. |
| 2/14/1994 | The controversial Supreme Court Judge V.Ramaswami, who survived an impeachment motion in Parliament, retires. |
| 1/16/1995 | India and USA form new trade framework called Indo-US Commercial Alliance and signs contracts worth $ 1.4 b. |
| 9/8/2000 | Dr. Surinder K. Vasal, Indian maize breeder, and Dr. Evagelina Villegas, Mexican cereal chemist, jointly awarded the World Food Prize-2000 for their decades-long scientific quest to produce quality protein maize for developing countries. |
| 11/10/1659 | Chhatrapati Shivaji killed Afzal Khan near Pratapgad Fort by a clever but undignified move. |
| 1/20/1997 | Indian Express launches its 18th edition from Belgaum. |
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